Pamphilus and Pausias

Sicyon, in the northeastern part of
Peloponnesus – a city already referred to as the home of
the sculptor
Lysippus – was the seat of an important
school of painting in the fourth century. Toward the
middle of the century the leading teacher of the art in
that place was one Pamphilus. He secured the
introduction of drawing into the elementary schools of
Sicyon, and this new branch of education was gradually
adopted in other Greek communities. A pupil of his,
Pausias by name, is credited with raising the process of
encaustic painting to a prominence which it had not
enjoyed before. In this process the colors, mixed with
wax, were applied to a wooden panel and then burned in
by means of a hot iron held near.